Keep the Thing in the Alleyway as Our Secret
Title: Keep the Thing in the Alleyway as Our Little Secret
Characters: Chanyeol, Baekhyun
Genre: fluff
Length: 2,604 words
Rating: PG-13 with AHA and DHA.
I know this sounds really awkward and you might want to break up on me for being a pervert or anything but I... I... um on the way to the parking lot I... I... 11 Aug, 1.29
I was thinking of kissing you. 11 Aug, 1.33
The view on Byun Baekhyun’s cellphone screen, one stressing night after one stressing date.
Park Chanyeol
Um I actually wanted to say something on the way to the parking lot. 11 Aug, 01.22
Yeah? What is it? 11 Aug, 01.24
Um... I... 11 Aug, 01.24
Baekhyun's hyung has promised to pick him up after this hangout with a gang of friends with Chanyeol tonight. It's closing hours and Baekhyun generally doesn't go home this late without feeling any worry.
Baekhyun is considering taking the last subway, along with Chanyeol and some a bajillion other people not wanting to be locked in an underground shopping arcade.
Baekhyun is left squatting on the floor waiting, while Chanyeol leans on a post like the faux model he is. There are five people filing in front of them and twenty five others behind. Baekhyun realizes that this whole subwait thing is going to melt into nonsense sooner or later. He looks up at Chanyeol.
"You really want to go home by subway?" Baekhyun asks.
"Anything cheap that provides 24 hour service sounds pretty compelling to me."
Baekhyun looks back at the long queue and easily decides that he should call his hyung for rescue.
Baekhyun sticks his dialing phone to his cheek.
"Oh. Hyung."
"Hnggg."
"Ah, hyung, I kinda want you to pick me up here..."
"Hnggg."
"Please hyung. COEX is closing. Pick me up right now yeah?"
"Hnggg."
"Thanks, bye!"
"Hnggg."
Click. Conversation executed at 12.20 AM.
"My hyung's gonna pick me up."
"Oh, great."Chanyeol smiles and nods. "So we're going to quit this line?"
"Um yeah, I guess. We go to the other side and get to the parking lot."
"Sounds good. Let's go."
Baekhyun squeezes through and leaves the subway platform with Chanyeol, walking past closing boutiques silently.
The door to the parking lot is under construction and the next door they find is already locked. Chanyeol decides he doesn't want to walk another mile for a glass door, so his mind dings a lightbulb. Ding!
"There's another way to the parking lot we passed just now," he says, pulling on Baekhyun's hand. Chanyeol pulls them to a small bright entrance near the restroom between the two defunct doors they passed.
Baekhyun has never known this exit and is pretty stunned with the coolness of the whole thing. It is bright and white and deserted, and the idea sounds pretty cool for him. An alleyway to the parking lot only they know.
No one, literally no one, is in the hallway at these hours.
Damn, this is a really cool place to kiss. Baekhyun shudders at the thought of Jongin's super gross and lame first kiss story in the cinema. Plus tongues and shit. Ew. Not Baekhyun's style. Kissing in a white, deserted alleyway with no one looking sounds better, and cooler, and way more elegant. That’s gonna make a cool story. He looks at Chanyeol's back and thinks of just pulling Chanyeol's head down to him and then walk like nothing happened. Or maybe pushing Chanyeol to the wall and pulling Chanyeol's head down to him and walk like nothing happened. Baekhyun unconsciously walks slower with the thought bothering him.
Baekhyun fixes his walking pace to catch Chanyeol and looks up to Chanyeol to maybe execute the idea. Chanyeol looks back at him and Baekhyun whips his head away, watching the tiled floor.
Damn, Baekhyun thinks, this is gonna be really frustrating.
This tunnel is going to end sooner or later.
He catches up on Chanyeol again and looks at Chanyeol, but then he shakes himself awake and slows down again. He's going to die standing if the idea hasn't sliver through Chanyeol's mind by the slightest bit. Baekhyun decides to stop to slow down and breathe, but eventually groans and flails his arms around, flipping mental tables.
I know this sounds really awkward and you might want to break up on me for being a pervert or anything but I... I... um on the way to the parking lot I... I... 11 Aug, 1.29
I was thinking of kissing you. 11 Aug, 1.33
Baekhyun lies on his tummy on the bed staring at his phone and wonders if he shouldn't have said it at all.
Um okay so you can forget that and delete this really weird message and we can continue with our really weird and tiring life as it was again, okay. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha sorry though hehehehehehehehehe byebye chanyeol gnite. 11 Aug, 1.40
Maybe it will do better for Baekhyun to sleep it away, he's been tired anyway.
Baekhyun finds out the next day that Chanyeol never answers that silly text message, and Baekhyun sighs. Drowning in the sea sounds like an extremely logical option.
So rather than moping about it, Baekhyun decides to put his Sunday to good use and study as hard as his butt could for his coming Sooneung. Baekhyun is a really consistent and dilligent boy when it comes to locking down in his room to study, only coming out to eat and shower and grab some ice cream and just pass by the TV on the right time to get a normal glimpse of Sistar.
Baekhyun comes back to his room with a small pint of ice cream and resumes reading this chapter on the digestive cycle. He likes reading by himself, rather than cramming himself with exercises without reviewing anything. Only after that will he do the mock tests, chapter by chapter, subject by subject.
It's four in the afternoon and he measures that his ice cream will last for slightly less than an hour, so he takes a look at his book and decides that he can finish nearly two more chapters with the ice cream. After that he'll just have dinner.
Three hours later and one and a half more chapters to go as Baekhyun pokes the egg on his bibimbap and starts stirring everything. His stomach suddenly churns at the thought of Chanyeol being creeped out and never wanting to see him again, but he swallows and tries to brush it away.
He waits and eats slower so that his parents and hyung can finish before him, but when he's done and is just about to open the tap and wash the dishes, his hyung nudges him and says, "I'll do it. You go back to your room and study."
Baekhyun turns his head to him, smiling wanting to say, you don't have to, but his hyung insists and starts washing the dishes without his consent. Baekhyun smiles, thanks his dear brother, and leaves.
It's half past nine and he only has thirty pages to go when his phone finally vibrates. He turns to his phone in shock. What if it's Chanyeol.
WHAT IF IT'S CHANYEOL.
The camera makes a dizzying zoom in - zoom out on Baekhyun's shocked face.
Baekhyun dismisses his worry saying that it may be from another friend, so he slides his lock screen open without peeking to only shriek the moment he opens his eyes.
Park Chanyeol
okay. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha sorry though hehehehehehehehehe byebyechanyeolgnite. 11 Aug, 1.40
Why didn't you tell me =_= 11 Aug, 20.39
Baekhyun yelps and throws away his phone to his bed and tries to hold on to his desk chair for dear life. He hyperventilates.
The bell dings.
"Baekhyunnie, go get the door," his hyung asks.
Baekhyun's eyes widen so far his eyeballs are gonna fall. What if it's Chanyeol.
W H A T I F I T ' S C H A N Y E O L .
He crawls, vverry, very slowly to the door, and opens the door politely and sees Chanyeol standing right there and slams the door shut in his guest's face.
Baekhyun slides down the door in panic and grabs his hair, not knowing what to do.
Chanyeol knocks, with hesitation. "Baekhyun?"
Baekhyun musters enough calm to open the door and say, "Hi!"
"Um yeah hi, let's grab some carp bread and hang out?" Chanyeol gives a hesitated grin.
"I--I'm studying biology and I'm sorry I really want to go but--"
"I'm not leaving your doorstep until you come with me."
Baekhyun tries his best to find a reason and not shut the door again.
"I'll give you three minutes to get dressed."
"W--wha--"
"One hundred and seventy eight... one hundred and seventy seven..."
Baekhyun rushes to his room to grab some random jeans and jacket and his wallet and phone, then he locks his room in a haste and calls to everyone in the living room that he'll be right back.
Chanyeol smiles at Baekhyun and watches him toe his shoe on. They leave the flat and ride the elevator down, the small talk inside not mentioning a bit of those texts last night.
When Baekhyun absentmindedly turns right to walk to the bus stop, Chanyeol calls him and asks, "Hey, where are you going?"
Baekhyun turns around in confusion and jumps when a black old sedan blinks its lights to the key in Chanyeol's hands.
"You--you didn't even drive twelve hours ago." Baekhyun blurts.
"Surprise~" Chanyeol singsongs, smiling like the gorgeous shit he is, holding the passenger's door for Baekhyun. "Come on in."
Baekhyun sits there, still in wonder, and waits for Chanyeol to climb in. Chanyeol starts the car and it hums softly, like the voice vibrating from the bottom of Chanyeol's lungs.
"Your car?" Baekhyun asks.
"Stole it from my dad for tonight. He won't mind."
Baekhyun just nods, still incapable of processing information.
"So, carp bread?" Chanyeol makes sure, clicking his seatbelt down before shifting the gear. The question is not meant to be answered, because Chanyeol slides into the street just like that, and starts roving his way.
The carp bread, Baekhyun realizes, is only some preparatory bullshit, because they don't stay at the street market for too long after that. After stopping at one more stall, Chanyeol tells him that they need to move to the next destination before it closes down.
Baekhyun follows like the good boy he is, sitting silently until he realizes where they're heading.
Down. To an underground parking lot. To COEX.
Baekhyun needs a cliff to jump from.
So Chanyeol parks right in the slot across that secret white tunnel. He kills the machine and takes Baekhyun out to follow him in.
Baekhyun is still stunned that there literally is no one in the white tunnel as he enters it from the other side today, but only until Chanyeol pulls him to a stop and leads him against the wall. Baekhyun stares into Chanyeol and Chanyeol looks tall and gorgeous and just so everything from this angle, although the height difference makes him slightly intimidating. Baekhyun's heart is knocking like an asphalt drill.
So, Chanyeol smiles to Baekhyun's eyes, then to Baekhyun's lips, and pushed Baekhyun's hair back before leaning in to kiss Baekhyun.
Oh.
So this is how it feels like.
Baekhyun's shoulder tingles and the tingle creeps down his spine, and Chanyeol's lips feels ticklish but it feels really really good, and his fingers twitch slightly in surprise, and he doesn't know how to feel, and holy god Chanyeol Chanyeol Chanyeol oh my god, and how can all of this happen in one second and how does anyone describe it in one line.
Chanyeol pulls away, smiling as soon as he is distant enough to stare into Baekhyun.
Baekhyun stares back, either thinking about nothing, or thinking about everything.
This even feels better than all the kissing descriptions in his secret stash of Yunjae fanfics combined.
It fills so much of Baekhyun's heart that he thinks he will shoot and explode like a firework, but as his heart explodes, he laughs. Baekhyun laughs so much that he slides down the white makeshift wall only to continue laughing. Chanyeol doesn't understand.
"W--what's wrong?" he asks, being the slowpoke he has always been. Baekhyun keeps laughing.
Baekhyun decides that it is enough laughing, so he tones it down slowly before standing up again. He smiles for Chanyeol.
Baekhyun is too jittery to say it out loud, so he smiles closely to Chanyeol's ear, whispering, "Can we do that again?"
Chanyeol smiles and places his hands on both sides of Baekhyun's face to kiss the boy again and Baekhyun sighs happily, hanging his arms on Chanyeol's neck and kissing back.
The feeling of kissing back is double the feeling of wanting to burst like a firework and triple the descriptions written in all those yunjae fanfics combined.
As he kisses, Baekhyun decides that he can live with this forever and ever.
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